Jazz landmark Perseverance Hall collapses in New Orleans.
Gray News) - A rare New Orleans Jazz landmark and historic Creole cultural site has collapsed.
Perseverance Hall has stood in the historic Seventh Ward since the 1880′s, but damage from Ida pushed the long-neglected building to the edge of collapse. Some heavy rain this week finally finished the job, bringing this once modest but mighty building, one of the very few surviving early jazz venues, to the ground,“This, I would put at the very top of the list of places where the great earliest jazz musicians were performing for dances on a weekly basis, and they were all there, you name them.
“You can’t know where you’re going without knowing where you come from, and you see that property falling down it, it hurts and hurts and no one wants to see that,” District C Councilmember Freddie King said.
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